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Another in-browser OS…
Cloudo According to their technology page, they don’t use Flash or Silverlight which is hard to believe given what they show in their guided tour. Also, they suggest an “automatic sync” of files between a desktop and the cloud. This cannot be achieved with just an in-browser app. One needs to install software locally. The…
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Great photo from my balcony
Chris was visiting with his partner last weekend. We had a great time (loooots of food)… well, I had a great time… I hope they did too 🙂 Chris took this great photo from my balcony while trying his new camera. That’s the Magnolia hill and the Seattle sky 🙂
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HTC Touch Cruise
Back in June 2007 I switched from T-Mobile to ATT in order to get the Blackjack I because the salesman told me that WM6 was “just a couple of weeks away”. Early December I went to complain because the update was still not available. Unfortunately, they promised to get back to me but nothing happened.…
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SneakerNet in action
We are experimenting with the processing of large amounts of scientific data so we asked for a copy of the SDSS SkyServer data. Alex Szalay was very kind to send us a copy… Tony Hey opening the box with the hard disks of the SkyServer data. This is of course SneakerNet in action 🙂 This…
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I am certain this is going to be an interesting blog to watch
I’ve started interacting with Bora Beran, a post-doc researcher working for Catharine van Ingen, over the last few months and I love it. He’s very energetic, creative, and with great ideas. Have a look at his ontology-driven Hydroseek work (resulting thesis). He’s just started blogging about his work and prototypes. Definitely worth checking out. He…
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Phew… Can’t wait for the weekend
Just spent the entire night at the office. It’s the ThinkWeek paper deadline today and I’ve been working on three of them!!! But it seems that we’ll submit all of them on time, if nothing goes wrong. I am very excited about the ideas we are proposing. Well, I hope that other technical folks inside…
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Microsoft and Yahoo
Of course it’s all over the technology news. It’s huge. I do hope it happens. Not everyone agrees. While exchanging emails about this with a friend, I did the calculation… Microsoft has around 80,000 employees… The $44B offer in cash represents around $0.55M per employee :-)))
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Open access chemistry
I was heavily involved at the initial technical discussions and the interactions with the group of people involved in this excellent activity. However, this is entirely the result of Lee Dirk’s excellent effort! The OAI-ORE format is going to be used in this project. I am going to talk about the OAI-ORE document format in…
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"Mest up people"
Every now and then I check my blog’s referral logs. Today I came across a Google query that directed the interested party to one of my pages… they were looking for “mest up people”… I guess they were really looking for “messed up people”… still, through the power of Google‘s engine, they got a good…
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MSR Community
My blog is now syndicated and available through the MSR Community site. Cool resource, go check it out.